THIS is not looking good for Mister BeadyEyes!
Gov. Rick Scott said he learned within the past two weeks that transition e-mail accounts could not be recovered from a private computer server, potentially erasing records that state law requires to be kept.
But documents show that Rackspace, the Texas-based company that provided e-mail, notified the transition team as early as March 14 that no records existed from 44 of 47 accounts that had been closed, including Scott's.
"I sincerely apologize for any inconveniences this causes you and your company and would like to refer you to Rackspace Archiving in the event a future incident should present itself where you need to access email correspondence sent/received by a user who had deleted emails or the mailbox has been removed," Rackspace customer service technician Leonard Vega Merino wrote at the time.
Merino's e-mail was to Luke Baker, a staffer with Harris Media, the online communications company that set up the Rackspace accounts. Baker had told the company: "If we do not recover them, then it is a potential violation of Florida state law."
Chris Kise, a Tallahassee attorney who advised Scott's transition, was given Merino e-mail on March 30. Kise then contacted Rackspace but received this reply on April 8 from company attorney Steve Priolo: "Our technicians verified that there is no data left on the hosted environment for the other mail boxes as they were disabled longer than 14 days ago."
Now, who woulda thunk the crook lies too???
